Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802777317 (0802777317)
ASIN: 0802777317
Publish date: 2005-09-01
Publisher: Walker & Company
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Marie Antoine (Antonin) CarĂªme was abandoned on the streets of Paris in the throes of the Terror. He started working for a pastry chef, and by the time he was a teenager was creating magnificent, imaginative pastry creations suitable for display. He became chef to Talleyrand, a gourmand who enterta...